Ethan's Blog
Updates from my composition studio, as well as some of my thoughts about music and the arts.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Reflections on Leonard Bernstein on his 100th birthday
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Anno Domini 1990 . I was born. He died. Naturally I’d like to think there’s some prophetic significance to that. Naturally there isn’t....
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Website under construction: ethanmcgrath.com
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Hello friends! Thanks for visiting my page. My website, ethanmcgrath.com, is under construction and should be up by early November. In t...
Monday, November 6, 2017
Overprotective "Father" Syndrome
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A choral director I know likes to refer to my compositions as my “children” or “babies.” When she’s programmed one of my works she’ll often...
Sunday, October 29, 2017
On Beethoven, Yosemite, and Pebbles in a Creek
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This is the script for a “lecture-recital” I offered at Southern Adventist University on May 25, 2014. I had often said that nature was a s...
Thursday, October 5, 2017
On 'Sad' Music...
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Occasionally an encounter with a member of the musical public leaves me feeling that I'm very out of touch with the way many people per...
Thursday, July 20, 2017
The Power of Paradox: Learning to Appreciate Vulnerability in Music
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Just some rather eccentrically expressed, philosophical musings I wrote in my journal a couple of years ago, and subsequently expanded. ~~~...
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